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Jpg.. BERLIBN. MEANS FOB, DRAWING CORKS FROM BOTTLES. No. 2f/8,388;-

Patented May 29, .1883.

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UNITED STATES yPATENT OEEICE.

JOACHIM E.BEELIEN, or ALTONA, PEUssIA, GERM-ANY.

MEANS Fon DRAWING CORKS FROM BOTTLES,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters raient No. 278,388, aerea May 29,1883. Application iled February 15, i883. (No model.)

`To all whom it may concer-n f s Beit known that I,.JoAoHIM EMILBERLIEN, of Altona, in the Kingdom of Prussia, in the companyingdrawings.

This invention relates to the class ot' corkdrawing devices whichconsist of a strap, cord, or band driven into the mouth of a bottle orother vessel with the cork, and extending I. transversely across 'underor through the cork lat or near its inner end, whereby provision is`afforded for withdrawing the cork by pulling on the protruding ends ofthe strap,cord, or band.` AThe object of my invention is to provideaconvenient means for determining wheth-` "er `the bottle or vesselhasbeen surreptitiousl y opened or uncorked.

The invention to this end consists in the combination, with a corkedbottle or other vessel and a strap or band applied tothe cork, as abovedescribed, of a label or seal applied to the exterior of the bottle orvessel and securing the end portions of thestrap or band there- In orderto bring the end portions ofthe strap or band upward into such aposition that they 4can 4be pulled to draw the cork, they `must be tornloose from the label or seal, and

this cannot be done wit-hout its being readily detected. The band orstrap' should be pre- ,pared to resist `the influence of the liquid con-`duced by the preparation of the former. 3 substance by means of whichthe strap is pretained in the vessel, and also for thepurpose ofpreventing leakage, which would result from its capillarity in theunprepared state. `Inlcases when bottles arecprkcd byinachinery orion gcorks are `driven-,very tight or fast preparation of the strap .or bandmay be restrap and the bottle, 8vo., may be largely -re- The' \ pared ortreated is preferably wax, and that y s. part of the strap which is tocome in contact) I with the cork of the bottle is dipped into moltenwax, and all superliuous portions of wax are afterward removed from thestrap by scraping its surface with a knife or such like sinstrumentrOther substances-as, for iny I, stance, parane-may beemployed for preparing the strap; but wax is preferred, .as it l exertsno influence upon the taste of the liquid inclosed in the bottle, jug,dto.

For drawing the cork of a bottle, jug, Src., closed in a manner asbefore described, the ends of the strap are torn from the outer snrfaceofthe bottle, and by pulling these 1both ends upward the cork isextracted by the strap.

with the ends' of the strap secured by the label. bottle with the strapunfastened and in position for drawing the cork. Fig. 3 is acrosssection ofthe neck ofthe bottle, the cork, and the strap. Y

B is the strap, partly prepared in the inanner described, and which is,together with the cork, driven into the neck of the bottle.

D represents a label or seal employed toattach the ends of the strap tothe outer side of the bottle, as shown in Figli.

To draw the cork from the bottle, the ends y of the strap or band B aretorn away from the label or seal D, and are wound round a finger orround the hand, and are pulled upward, as shown in Fig. 2. cork and thebottle is partly reduced by the smoothprepared strap B, there is nodiiiiculty `in extracting corks of wine-bottles or othe'r large bott-lescorked by machinery or otherwise.

aresecured asabove described they cannot be detached and brought upwardinto a position for drawing lthe cork without tearing or defacing thelabel or seal, and hence a ready means is afforded for determiningwhether the cork has been surreptitiousl y withdrawn.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The combination, with a corked bottle or other corked vessel, of thestrap or band B, passing across the cork and between it and the mouth ofthe bottle', and having its` end portions projecting beyond the mouth,and a label or seal, D, applied to the-exterior of the bottle or vessel,and securing the end portions of the strap or band thereto,substantially as and for the purpose herein described.`

JOACHIM EMIL BERLIEN.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the corked- When the end portions of thestrap or band Figure l of the annexed sheet of drawings represents inperspective the corked bottlel As the friction between the Ico

